- Next week (22/02/2012), is Wednesday by the way...it's our Cultural Diversity class. [No class on Tuesday 21/02/2012]
- Please read/research on 'THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE'
- There will be short group presentation based on topics that will be discuss
- please be ready and come early and for those who arrive early, help out to arrange chairs&table ;p
- As for the venue of the class, the class is still the same place at TR31-A2 Level 10,LCS
- Lets we make it the class more exciting and interactive!best of luck buddies!!!!=D
Saturday 18 February 2012
NEXT WEEK CLASS (22/02/2012)
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class start on 11.30am guys..tq
ReplyDeleteGood Job, Ammin Azmi....:) Happy to see u here
ReplyDeletetq ammin 4 creating this blog..
ReplyDeletec u guys later in class..
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err i tot the class is in tr 30? not tr 31?
ReplyDeleteor is it my schedule is different from everyone? -.-
syafiqa: urmm last class at TR31 right?i oso not sure but my schedule class for this subject is at TR31..better if u check back schedule,so ur in a right class..
ReplyDeletefatin amirah :most welcome buddies..;)
sugha darling ;)
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ReplyDeleteMdm, first stage of hist of english is "Germanic group " do we have to focus at the linguistic features such "phonology and morphology " ?
ReplyDeletegoood job ammin
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ReplyDeletehaa there vaishnavi u oso can post comment wat..;p good luck..;)
ReplyDeleteEverything,Sugha,that will show the differences in the different periods in the history of the English language,and also how English evolved over the years...
ReplyDeleteClass on Wednesday 11.30-2.30pm.Venue:A2-10 Tr30....come prepared for a good discussion/presentation...if you are able to download video clips on the history of the English language....that'll be great!!!
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ReplyDeleteYes mdm, You are right... I just had a glance on that topic and i understand that It elaborate's more about the English language culture,how it become the medium of communication and etc..:)Im still doing my research on this topic..:)
ReplyDeleteamazing class today!
ReplyDeletegood job amin..now i can post a comment in this blog!
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ReplyDeleteBasically to explain about the Middle English, In 1066 William the conqueror, the Duke of Normandy, invaded and conquered England. For a period, there was a linguistic division, where the lower classes spoke English and the upper classes spoke French. For an example, lower classes people address animal’s meat such as cow as cow and goat as goat. Meanwhile, upper classes address cow as beef, and goat as mutton. In 14th century, English became dominant in Britain, but with many French words added. For instance, table, chair and car are the examples of French words. This language is called Middle English. Middle English was still a Germanic language but it is different from Old English in many ways. The grammar and the sound system changed a good deal. People started to rely more on word order and structure words to express their meaning.
Group 9,
Vaishnavi Mariappa
Devipriya Maran
Umapriya karuppiah
Kamini Ratinakumar
Prema Subramaniam
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ReplyDeleteEnglish came from Germanic tribes that they invaded Britain who were Saxons, Angles and Jutes. They made the local speak English instead of old celtic language. In 800AD, Danish and Norse pirates who were also known as vikings came ENgland received many Norse loanwords (borrow words). Days in a week was also created. In 1066AD,William the Conqueror spoke "Norman" closely related to Fresh.
in modern English, there was a distinct change in pronunciation, the Great Vowel Shift, the vowels getting shorter and shorter. Renaissance of classical learning which meant that new words and phrases entered the language. Invention of printing and books became cheaper. More people learnt to read. Spelling and grammar became standardized. In 1604, the first English Dictionary was published.
In late modern English, more vocabulary words due to industrial revolution and technology created and British Empire at its height covered one quarter of the earth's surface, and the English language adopted foreign words from many countries.
Group 8,
Jenny Chew
Adam Chong Chin Hua
Kribathini
Kimberly Chai
Kimlashene Mohan
QUESTION 5)c = EARLY MODERN ENGLISH
ReplyDeleteIn this era, the English language had undergoes some changes in term of sounds of words but, the spelling remain constants. The advent of printing press also happened in this period where it causes the publishing of the first dictionary in English history. The dictionary are used to standardized the language among the English speakers and to create a better understanding among them. This also made English became a more powerful language. In addition, some words were borrowed from Italian,Spanish and Yiddish with the acceptance of British and Americans.
GROUP 10:
Fatin Amirah Iskhandar
Norshyreen Shaharuddeen
Mohd Tajuddin Khairi Ameer
Nur Ezira
Yakshenee
hye friends... Is that early modern English have influence by old English?
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Deletebased on what I understand i dont really that EME had been influenced by OE.
bcause as we can see, in OE, the English language it is more focuses on the starting of English language and some of the words that we are still using until now.
However,EME more focuses on standardizing the language to achieve understanding between speakers of English language. it is also influenced by the event of the Printing Press.
p/s:hope this answers can help u.tq for replying to this post and hope we can exchange ideas.
have a nice day!
Malisa: :) hi there!
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ReplyDeleteit is all started with the arrival of the 3 Germanic tribes where they invaded Britain around the 5th century.the 3 tribes are the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes. originally the people of Britain were using Celtic language. when the tribes came, they have force all the Celtic speakers move to the west and the north where is now known as the Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
In the Middle English where William the Conquerors have invaded and conquered England. During that period of time, there were 2 classes of language where the higher class people will use French language and the lower class people will use English. But all of this changes during the 14 century where English became the dominant language in Britain again but were mixed up with lots of French language.
During the Early Modern Language, The Great Vowel Shift happen and causes it to pronounce shorter and shorter. This also causes many new words and phrases enter English language. When the first English dictionary were publishes in 1604, spelling and grammar were fixed.
The only different between Early Modern Language and Late Modern Language are the vocabulary.Late Modern English where Industrial Revolution and Technology created lots of new word. This happen as British Empire conquered one of the quarter of the earth and English have adopted many foreign language into it. Words such as:
apparatus,data,experiment,formula,structure and ration were all foreign languages and where English adapted it.
Group 2
Raymond Lee
Victor Alan Vincent
Niesha Jamaldeen
Razline Jasmine
Noor Athirah
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The topic that was given to my group was "LATE MODERN ENGLISH" (1800-PRESENT). In Late Modern English era, its mainly focuses on vocabulary which is also one of the major difference among early Modern English and Late Modern English. Therefore, we can come to a conclusion that in Late Modern English it has more new words that being used. The two main principal factors that contributes to the enrichment of vocabularies are" The Industrial Revolution and Technology" and also "British Empire".
Firstly, for your information during the Industrial Revolution and Technology are, English speakers tend to use new word. For example, new terms regarding industrial profession might be used very often by the English speakers. Not only that, scientist also tend to use new vocabularies which also relates to the professions. Therefore, we can say that it has indirectly enriched the vocabularies of English Language.
Secondly, we move on to the next main factor that contributes during Late Modern English, "British Empire" which at its height covered almost one quarter of the earth's surface. It means that through the British Empire it has conquered most of the country during the colonial period. Thus, English language have been a compulsory that being used as a medium to communicate. Besides that, printing media also contributes during Late Modern English whereby “BIBLE’S” were printed and through this the Christianity religion also spread around the world. Not only was that, dictionaries also printed at moment and being used worldwide. At the same time, English language also spread through the world. In addition, English language also adopted foreign words from many countries.
Examples of those words are as follow:
French: ambulance, diplomat, parachute, sauce
Malay: amok, bamboo, gong
Sanskrit: Orange, avatar, karma, yoga
Hindi: jungle, shampoo, bangle, bungalow
Arabic: sultan, bazaar, giraffe
Persian: check, checkmate, chess
Japanese: sushi, tsunami, samurai, karaoke
Spanish: tornado, Guitar
now thats a long and brief answer...so, guitar was adopted from Spanish language...interesting....now i'm anticipated in finding more words......good job arvint...=)
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ReplyDeleteLets see if i could post this time
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ReplyDeleteYey! i like the new blog :)
ReplyDeleteOld English is also known as Anglo-Saxon is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxon and their descendants in parts of what are now England and southern and eastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century. What survives through writing represents primarily the literary register of Anglo-Saxon
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